Gazed

Examples

• Heaven and Evening gazed back on her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He gazed stupidly about him for an instant, and obeyed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She gazed at me with troubled eyes, long and questioningly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Mr. Claypole, without making any further change in his position than suffering his legs to reach the ground, gazed at the beadle in drunken terror. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This very evening he had again stooped, gazed, and decreed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She went and leaned on the chest of drawers over which the picture hung, and gazed and gazed at it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It gazed and gazed on me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Oliver gazed, for a moment, at the struggles of the madman (for such he supposed him to be); and then darted into the house for help. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The Pickwickians gazed on each other with wondering eyes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I renewed the fuel, re-arranged the bedclothes, gazed awhile on her who could not now gaze on me, and then I moved away to the window. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I gazed with a kind of wonder. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Madame Olenska leaned toward the fire and gazed into it with fixed eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The baronet gazed after her, then went and stood behind his sisters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had nowhere seen such faces as theirs: and yet, as I gazed on them, I seemed intimate with every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Lily, leaning back among her pillows, gazed musingly at his letter. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Trenor, looking stouter than ever in his tight frock-coat, and unbecomingly flushed by the bridal libations, gazed at her with undisguised approval. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the glowing splendor it looked so frail and ethereal, that, even as they gazed, it melted away before their eyes like a fairy vision. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• No; moonlight was still, and this stirred; while I gazed, it glided up to the ceiling and quivered over my head. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She gazed intently on her face. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As she entered and closed the door on herself, he sank down in a chair, and gazed and sighed and puffed portentously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Pickwick stopped, and gazed on each of his friends in turn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There were our Mohammedan servants, a Latin monk, two Armenians and a Jew in our cortege, and all alike gazed with overflowing eyes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Miss Helstone paused, hesitated, gazed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Tom gazed at the chair; and, suddenly as he looked at it, a most extraordinary change seemed to come over it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She gazed, accordingly, upon the scene, which we shall endeavour to describe in the next chapter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Justinian gazed at the young man as if he would read his very soul, then, turning away with a half-suppressed sigh, entered the theatre. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Shirley gazed at the questioner with rising colour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She never answered, but gazed longand at last a darkness went trembling through her sensitive eye, as she said, Put me down. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He fell backward in his chair, and, clasping his hands together, gazed on the apparition with a mingled look of abhorrence and fear. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Editor: Megan